Adjustable vehicle-headlight.



D. 0. KITCHING. ADJUSTABLE VEHICLE HEADLIGHT. APPLIUATION. FILED APR. 23, 1914.

1, 1 1 ,724. Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

W Fij'm 1 I 15a I 15 I WITNESSES: 1 16 INVENTOR m 12' panic/5m THE NDRRJS PETERS CO PHOTYJLITHQ, WASHINGTON. D.

slightly beneath the lowermost bracket mem;

. termes'hed bevel 1 front end of a horizontalshaft. 18 passing may shaft;

iing firinly engaged by the two brackets come fprised by the parts 11 "ticipate in the rotation ,4 1 '.s

j adjusted'tojthrow its rays to the right o'f'the'. j

1 distorted through tationto which thecylinder 6 is to return the headlight to '"ing a ninety degree turn toward-the carand;

" a; vertical rock-shaft 20 is 'I S thr ugh a pair of'bevel gears men, an explanation will now the operat on 3 of my invention.

frighft or left, according to the direction of 5 h? "relatedwith said a spacedrelation with the j oinedends of the 'parts12 and 13 of lamp to" throw, its track, thelowermost spring'will be subjected: "to; distortion, while Lt on at the right or straight ahead Qof the car.

springs resist each other in their tendencies thi v ingtange i how correlatedwith an to impart a rotationto the cylinder 6 and top electric. earb it is- -to be; understood that the the headlight. The counteracting forces ex- 'mechani m is f th r or da ted fonuse erted by the two springshtend; to mainta n in connection with locomotives, automobiles the headlight in a POSlt-lOltSLICll that its and varigusother ehicles, I raysare directed; straight ahead of the car, -The'inyention is presented as including all suchrmodifications and changes as come within "the scope of the following claims. f l

What I claim is: f a 1 l. Inv'a device ofthe character described; a the combinationwith two vertical cylinders, spaced one within The lower end of the cylinder 9,,projects ber '11 to engage with a'pipe elbow 1-5 ,m1'

closedat'itsother end by a cap 16. l/Vithin E the, elbow l5 there is mounted a pair ofingears 17- one of which is rigidly carried by the lower endof the cylin-r Jderti-andthe other mounted fast upon the mounting the s inner cylinderya pairfof 'springseo'iled upon theinner cylinder, each held y having a connection with the opplosite rotatiye impulses being exerted by sal means for subjecting the inner cylinderto loosely through a bushing 18" fcap 16; The. shaft 18 is extended rear wardly into the vestibule of the car passing through the frontwall of the same. I

I 1 Within the'car; adjacent to its front wall,- t iti p p mounted, a 2111i device ofIthe t0 the Sh ft the combination 'wlth'two verticalcyhnders,

uppe t mi ,vthe ro k- 0 is m being rigidly 'su or'ted; of a headlight surwith an integral handle 22, whereby rotation; tin th in -f lj jd pai of be manually imparted to said rock-- in 's bdi1 df 'th in e adapted to communicate rotation glngtheir endsmade fast tothe'outer cylinder, r a loop being formed at- "each" spring from: which fitt H said cylinder in the same direction in He :tending tow'ardthe ends, a j

he motorman, when desiring to illumirigidly "from the innerjc'y-linderg natefa'curve, will throw: the handle 22 to the lo p,

of the springs'for inder in certain direction,

pin producing [distortion of Z'JSUIIDQ' for rotation offthe' cylinder ii -the 1 hevarious features of the construction I having been covered'inthe foregoing discus be given asto;

inner cylc uryaiture of the track; The cylinder 9 be and 11", will not parcommunicated to the inner cylinder torotation.

the. combination with a vertical cylinder, of

track, the uppermost spring will be or pri-ngs v 1 their, extremities made 14. The rosubjected in accomplishing this adjustment of the head-i light is not such as to produce" distortion of, ower coiled spring, since thepin 14 cor- I spring will be shifted into nicated to the o ned ends of the correlated pin c from which M its coils are yl than, pr'piecti cylinderfinto each loop, ject'ing the correlated ,din 'ing rotation of the on of, said pins S lhspring'. to distortion cylinder in-j a certain saidsprlng. Similarly, during adjustment of the itis apparent that rays to the left "of the spring to'. di'stortion in and means for: rotation, c 7

4; Inga device of the v character described,

the. upper spring will i not be affected: Whether the adjustmentof, the com ination the headlight is such as. to produce illuminaspaced-j one within} thesfiothe left of the track, the k w spring. which is distortedwill in each case a normal .porays, will be, directed;

slt on. 1n. whicln its h1le my novel'adjusting mechanism in v the otherptheouter' one being rigidly supported, of a headlight sur-. 7

springs upon the inner cylinder, and

the center. of 7 other direction, and lneans 'for subjecting the .3. In a; device of the character described; r

'he'a dlight superimposedthereupon, a' pair coiled upon'said cylinder, liaying fast Y inffa" yertical, jalineinent adjacent; to the cylinder,' aj loop beingYfOrmed'at the center ofeachgspring, passed around-the g,.'rigidly. from 1 they 5 subjecting. the cylinder," to

outer cylinder,

cylinder liar- 1 6 of a gp ns .pr d i e; i t rti and the otherv its jcorrelated direction, and? subjecting the 'correlated the other direction,

with two yert cal cylinders i he outer one peirfdf springs cbilie'dupon the inner cylname to this specification in the presence of incler, each having a Connection With the two subscribing witnesses. 1

outer cylinder, opposite irotative impulses I DAVE) G KITCHING being eXertedby said springs'upon the inner 1 5 cylinder, "andmean's foncommunicating ro- Witnesses:

tation t0 the inner cylinder. B. .E. C. BRUGKNER,

lntestimony whereof I have signed my JACK A. SCHLEY.

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